Meet Jay.
Small-time dealer.
Accidental jihadist.
The one man who can save us all?
Shortlisted for the 2021 Edgar Awards
Javid â call him Jay â is a dope dealer living in West London. He goes to mosque on Friday, and heâs just bought his pride and joy â a BMW. He lives with his mum, and life seems sweet.
But his world is about to turn upside-down. Because MI5 have been watching him, and they think heâs just the man they need for a delicate mission.
One thingâs for sure: now heâs a long way East of Hounslow, Jayâs life will never be the same again.
With the edgy humour of Slough House and the pulse-racing tension of The Bodyguard, East of Hounslow is the first in a series of thrillers starring Jay Qasim.
Praise for East of Hounslow
âExcellent book. Phenomenal writing.â â BA Paris, author of Behind Closed Doors
âEducated me about some of the most urgent issues of our time while making me repeatedly snort with laughter.â â Telegraph
âTold with striking panache. Announces the arrival of a fine, fresh new thriller writerâ â Daily Mail
âAs much a coming-of-age story as a full-on action thriller, East of Hounslow is thought-provoking and entirely gripping.â â Guardian
âA brilliant thriller. Youâd be mad not to buy this. â â Ben Aaronovitch, author of Rivers of London
Reviews
âEducated me about some of the most urgent issues of our time while making me repeatedly snort with laughterâ. Telegraph
âCombining humour and tragedy is one of the hardest literary challenges, but Khurrum Rahman succeeds.â TLS
âTold with striking panache. Announces the arrival of a fine, fresh new thriller writerâ Daily Mail
âA very funny but tense thrillerâŚThink Four Lions meets Phone Shopâ Red
âAs much a coming-of-age story as a full-on action thriller, East of Hounslow is thought-provoking and entirely gripping.â Guardian
âSweary, funny and, above all, an absolutely cracking thriller that youâll tear through, this is the anti-James Bond that the 21st century needsâ Emerald Street
'East of Hounslow, in which a young Muslim finds himself forced to become an MI5 plant in a group of jihadists, is as British as Nelsonâs Colum. A superb and exciting debut novel' Telegraph
âClipped dialogues, staccato sentences and the hilariously brilliant prose set the pace of this excellent unputdownable crime thriller. The climax will leave you breathless.â New Indian Express
âA brilliant thriller. Youâd be mad not to buy this.â
Ben Aaronovitch, author of Rivers of London
âExcellent book. Phenomenal writing.â BA Paris, author of Behind Closed Doors
âI loved it. More pleaseâ Mel McGrath, author of Give Me the Child
âBuilds to a heart-constricting climaxâ Times Crime Club
âThe best thriller Iâve read in agesâ Stephen Leather